Word: supression
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Students allege that because the group has jurisdiction over disputes construed to arise from the conflicting rights of community members it can be called on to supress political activities that the faculty considers disruptive...
Mudge said Boucher's treatment was complicated by a kidney ailment caused by the large doses of drugs needed to supress his body's rejection of the heart...
...ever. The story was a new twist on an old tale--how American public officials lied to each other and to the public over the course of the long war. Specifically, a CBS documentary ("The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception") showed how the U.S. military successfully strove to "supress and alter" estimates of Communist forces in Vietnam before the January 1968 Tet offensive...
...formed a coalition with several leftist political parties. The new government, backed by the United States, pledged widespread agrarian reform and aid to the country's six million poor. It also promised to put an end to repression and human rights abuses by the armed forces, and simultaneously to supress the leftist guerrillas they felt were a danger to the state...
Prison officials also manipulated the prisoners' fear and suspicion of each other to control behavior. "The first thing you learn is the prisoners must control each other," Hieu says. "If anyone violates the discipline of a prison, the whole room would be punished. We were forced to supress each other for our own good...